[Commission, 1799 Aug. 1 to] grant, constitute and appoint Dr. Peter Ramis to be ... Deputy Registrar and Scribe of the Acts ... in the Vice Admiralty Court within the Island of Minorca
By: R. Edwards.
Series: Blake -- no. 1028
Published: 1799
Language: eng
Format: Manuscript
Subjects: Edwards, Richard, -- fl. 1792-1800
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title from cataloger.

Paper watermarked: T HOOKE & SON 1798 and Oval holding within it Britannia seated.

Document begins: Whereas His Majesty has been graciously pleased by Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the High Court of he Admiralty ...

Witnessed by Peter Rodrigues & Prats and Peter Sitges.

Red Britannia seal under Edwards' signature.

Richard Edwards was the publisher in 1797 of Young's Night thoughts for which he commissioned William Blake to produce the illustrations. Cf. Bentley, G.E.  Richard Edwards, publisher of church-and-King pamphlets and of William Blake, in Studies in bibliography, v. 41, 1988, pp. 283-315.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.